Re: Fedora-marketing-list Digest, Vol 57, Issue 2

[Shambo Bose]

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 10:30 PM,
<fedora-marketing-list-request(a)redhat.com&gt;wrote:

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>    1. Intel, Nvidia Kernel Mode-Setting In Fedora 11 (Rahul Sundaram)
>    2. Video: Ted Ts'o on Ext4, BtrFS, First Steps with Linux
>       (Rahul Sundaram)
>    3. REMINDER: MEETING TOMORROW 2009.03.03 @ 21.00UTC (Jack Aboutboul)
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>  Message: 1
>  Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:15:14 +0530
>  From: Rahul Sundaram <sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;
>  Subject: Intel, Nvidia Kernel Mode-Setting In Fedora 11
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>  Hi,
>
>  Essentially this means you will see Plymouth graphical bootup look
>  better in a lot more systems and easily enabled in Nvidia systems as
>  well.  KMS brings in a number of other benefits as well.
>
>  http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzEwMA
>
>  "Just three days ago we shared that Nouveau will become the default
>  NVIDIA driver in Fedora 11 to replace the obfuscated xf86-video-nv mess.
>  Now proposed for Fedora 11 is to also integrate the Nouveau kernel
>  mode-setting driver."
>
>  "Enabled by default on Fedora 11 will be Intel kernel mode-setting
>  (along with the ATI kernel mode-setting that can already be found in
>  Fedora 10). More on this is also available from the Fedora Wiki. ATI
>  kernel mode-setting has been enabled since Fedora 10, but in Leonidas
>  the support will be extended to support KMS on ATI R100/200 hardware. "
>
>  Rahul
>
>
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>  Message: 2
>  Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:22:09 +0530
>  From: Rahul Sundaram <sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;
>  Subject: Video: Ted Ts'o on Ext4, BtrFS, First Steps with Linux
>  To: For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base
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>  Hi
>
>  Note that Fedora 11 Alpha uses ext4 as the default filesystem and has
>  experimental support for btrfs as well.
>
>
>  http://www.osnews.com/story/21057/Video_Ted_Ts_o_on_Ext4_BtrFS_First_Step...
>
>  "Linux Magazine has put up a  video of Ted Tso, one of the primary
>  developers of Ext4 and current CTO of Linux Foundation, on the current
>  state of Ext4, the current plan of Fedora to have it as the default
>  filesystem for Fedora 11, how it compares to Btrfs, and other insights.
>  Ted says that Ext4 is close to production-ready being built on the
>  mature and stable Ext3 codebase and being an evolutionary step that
>  brings in additional performance and scalability. Btrfs is a completely
>  new filesytem developed from scratch with a number of  new features like
>  filesystem level snapshots that Ext4 could not accommodate. Ext4 is well
>  on its way to becoming the next standard filesystem for Linux while
>  allowing Btrfs to innovate more and mature over time."
>
>  Rahul
>
>
>
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>  Message: 3
>  Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:24:03 -0500
>  From: Jack Aboutboul <jaa(a)redhat.com&gt;
>  Subject: REMINDER: MEETING TOMORROW 2009.03.03 @ 21.00UTC
>  To: For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base
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>  Hello All,
>
>  This is to remind everyone that we will be having our first meeting at
>  the newly decided meeting time of Tuesday at 21.00UTC.  The meeting will
>  be in #fedora-mktg for now until we can secure a slot in #meeting
>  (request was already put in).
>
>  There is a great amount of stuff to discuss and work on, so let's all
>  look forward to a great meeting!
>
>  If possible, can people just respond to this and let us know who plans
>  on attending?
>
>  Thanks,
>  Jack
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I would have loved to attend it but its 02:30 am in India so will not be
able to attend this meeting.

Thanks,
Shambo Bose